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A big Gezi Park demonstration was met with particular brutality. The protest was supposed to start at 7pm and a friend called not long after that warning me not to go out.

I ventured out for food around 10pm and tear gas immediately hit my nostrils. Within about a minute of standing on a side street to İstiklal Caddesi with a few protesters, some equipped gas masks and/or improvised clubs, trying to decide whether it was same to move forward an armored police vehicle shot a gas canister in our direction. I got ice cream dinner and went back home.